The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-12-21
NEW YoRKS WIFE MARKETS.
The -Four Great Matrimonial NIarts of the
Metropolis.
From the Philadelphia Press.

Metropolis.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The fou, great markets for wives in New
York are the Sunday school, the big stores
and factories, the street, and the boarding
houses. | have purposely arranged them
in the order above because the greatest
matrimonial markets are the Sunday
schools and the least are the boarding
houses. Marriages are made in boarding
houses, but the average boarding house
keepers daughter is more apt TO end an old
maid than q wife. The reason is that it
seems not to be good for the girls for men
to see them too much or in too varied
range of employment. 1t takes the ro-
nance and poetry out OF the wife hunters
head and she charm from girls person
atty for her to be seen on her keens scrub
bling, or her mead in a towel sweeping, or
sitting ashes in slovenly wrapper. or
course, there are girls who can do every
sort of homework with such en- air and
grace that even q level-headed lover will
try to steal the broom or ashes sitter she
has held in order 10 have it for keepsake,
but those girls are not apt TO De developed
in the dull and cruel grind OF boarding
house routine.s
In the Sunday schools the girls look
| their very best. Not only do thousands of
| tender. hearted young fellows attend them
IN order 10 develop circle Of lady friends
for themselves, but Just so do the myriad
Young women, who are either here without
their families or who are shut up in facto-
ries all day and live in parlorless tene-
| ments by night, geek the same religious
| resorts for similar ends. 1t is a curious
| fupction that New York Sunday schools
| perform. They are resorted to by about
1 ZOO Cinnamon, who go there simply TO
learn English, and by Thousands OF Chris
tians who go there to get mated.
When / say the big shopping stores are
great matrimonial markets | do not mean
10 have it inferred that the girls who stand
| behind the counters are given to wedding
the male customers they wait upon. Such
things do happen, / suppose, but not fire..
ouently enough for consideration, the fact
being that nothing could be worse for a
counter girl in big New York store than
for her to be courted while on
duty. II her employers did not discharge
her the other girls would torment
her beyond endurance. Meetings
between tho girls and their
beaux on the way home from work are not
10 be taken into consideration, for the less
es GO home in troops, and are merciless
| teasers so that this is also rare occurrence.
One of the big shopping stores, by the way,
EMPLOYS detectives to see that no young
fellows hang about the store at closing time
to meet the counter girls. But there is 8
field for matrimony that is directly in the
stores and is exceedingly fruitful. The
male employees, buyers, heads of depart
menis, men clerks, cashiers, and even the
members of the firms get very many wives
from among the girls whom they meet ev
cry day and grow to admire, II their quail
ties are such ss recommend them. Ac
ouaintances thus made lead to visits at the
girls homes, TO evening companionship
and 10 wedlock. These same men and wo
men In the big stores, by the way, arr
among the hosts that attend the Sunday
Schools.
There are actually streets set aside TO
courtship by the psrlorless poor. Upper
| E;ebtb avenue. where the little shops are
, lower Second avenue, past the houses of tn
old foey rich, and the bottom Of Broad